Hello
i have an old toshiba laptop, and i've never been able to run puppy into it due to problem with Xvesa, ubuntu runs fine on it, with 800x600 video and vesa driver..
so i tought the new xorg driver would help me..
but it didn't..
xvesa gets locked always at "starting X with video mode 0x0111 and mouse psaux"
xorg instead gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor..
i gave a look at xorg.conf and saw he sees a trident chipset, i tried many times to edit by hand it, putting vesa, but it simply doesn't start..
in ubuntu the fastest way to run it was "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" which asked me a few question and let me change what i wanted..
now i don't know how to do..
does anyone have an idea about how to fix this problem and finally run puppy?
i have just 4Gb hdd and i can't spend 3 of them for ubuntu!_________________--
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and how can i do that?
i've no clue how to take it out from ubuntu into pup...
pop001 is a bit file i can't just open it like an archive and copy xserver.xorg into it..
oh how can i look into xorg.log? i've to delete pup001 and make a new one with xorg in order to reach busybox...since xvesa is completely locked.._________________--
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Thanks MU and barry!!!!
i am on puppy now
xorgconfig did the trick..as well as copying the file from ubuntu!
i reboot and see if retains the settings now..
what about WIFI does it work on puppy?_________________--
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Ok
this is the way i made everything work, i completely deleted pup001 and started from scratch.

first of all xorg must be selected, as xvesa doesn't support my hardware.
then i let it autoprobe and get hang.
i ctrl-alt-del reboot and get to busybox
at busybox i do: xorgconfig
and is important to choose VESA as chipset, 2048kb of video mem
and monitor is 800x600@56hz with vertical rate 50-70
; edit all the video mode to 800x600 with no bigger than visible screen.

doing this xorg works fine, and i don't get the error window anymore!
using xorg.conf from ubuntu works also, but every time i have to start x manually by xwin, since i get busybox instead of x.

i copy user.cramsf to hda1 and now is a swift to boot puppy.

ONE THING i couldn't find is this:
where is the battery monitor????
i can't do w/o it on a laptop

and also, installing dillo from pupget isn't a good idea, leaves a N icon in the menu and doesn't work, uninstall it, and install from doptup gives a working patched dillo, but damn the N icon is still there...
also, linneightborhood doesn't work properly, doesn't retain the ip of the machines i give, doesn't even save the userid-password for samba windows access....
cheope net browser doesn't discover win machines..
a stuff like wifiradar would be really nice, a wifi autoconfigurating device, for surfing in airports and so on..
that's all.
it works GREAT and fast!only every time i reboot i get that pup001 was not cleanly umounted so check forced...strange no?
my pup is 768Mb now since i installed quite a bunch of stuffs..
AMULE is needed!!!! as well as thunderbird!_________________--
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